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[510e]
And so in all cases. The very things which they mould and draw, which have
shadows and images of themselves in water, these things they treat in their
turn1 as
only images, but what they really seek is to get sight of those realities
which can be seen

1 i.e. a bronze sphere would be the
original of its imitative reflection in water, but it is in turn only
the imperfect imitation of the mathematical idea of a sphere.

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